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continued along suture and the médian fascia of différent shape and 

 direction; the front part of the head, the basai joint of antennœ and 

 the palpi are also dark. 



Lemidia hieroglyphica n. sp. (fig. 9-10). 



Black; front two thirds of head, sides behind eyes, angles of 

 prothorax, a large basai blotch on elytra narrowed towards middle 

 and then dilated, and appendages (parts of tarsi and of hind tibiae 

 infuscate) llavous. Sparsely clothed with stragghng hairs, beco- 

 ming shorter, more or less erect and seriate on elytra. 



Head rather wide, sides of base and front half with rather 

 numerous subrugose piinctures, elsevvhere almost impunctate ; 

 inter-ocular fovese very feeble. Prothorax distinctly longer than 

 wide, sides rather suddenly inllated in middle, distinctly narrower 

 than head, constriction rather more distant from base and from 

 apex than usual, surface slightly uneven and with a few indistinct 

 punctures. Elytra scarcely wides than liead, almostquite parallel- 

 sided; with somevvhat irregular rows of rather large clearly defined 

 punctures, becoming smaller posteriorly. — Length 4 mill. 



Hah. : N. S. Wales : Sydney (A. J. Coates and E. W. Ferguson). 



On the elytra of the type the flavous marking narrowly occupies 

 the entire base, is then continued along the dise for a short 

 distance, then strongly narrowed towards the middle, at the 

 middle strongly inflated and then strongly narrowed, till it 

 terminâtes on the suture at about one-fourth from the apex. On 

 another spécimen the elytra appear to bave an oblique disconnected 

 fascia about the middle, extending to the suture but not to the side, 

 it is, however, connected with the large basai blotch very narrowly 

 along the suture, but is not continued beyond the middle. The 

 front of the prothorax appears to be feebly corrugated. In 

 appearance it is somewhat close to suturalis, but the elytral 

 marking is distinctly terminated some distance before the apex, 

 not extending to the apex itself as in ail the numerous spécimens 

 I hâve seen of that species. The pale markings atthe front angles of 

 the prothorax are also not conjoined. From simulans it is 

 distinguished by no disconnected markings. 



Lemidia sexspilota n. sp. (fig. 23). 



Black; front half of head, tips of the abdominal segments, six 

 spots on elytra, antennse and parts of the legs, more or less flavous. 



